Yuta Shimizu and Jie Cui will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Hangzhou Challenger for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 3:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yuta Shimizu who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yuta Shimizu is the pick to win this match.
Yuta Shimizu -> 1.5
Jie Cui -> 2.45

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Prediction and head to head Yuta Shimizu vs. Jie Cui

This will be the 3^rd time that Yuta Shimizu and Jie Cui play each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Shimizu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Shimizu won 4-6 6-4 6-1 in the 2^nd round in China F4 (Wuhan) back in 2018.

Yuta Shimizu

Ranked no. 256, the Japanese will start his run in the Hangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 7-5 7-6(2) to Bellucci in the qualifications on the 30^th of September.

Yuta has a composed 25-23 win-loss record in 2024, 21-20 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Yuta’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in the Little Rock Challenger.

Talking about his overall career, Shimizu has an overall 243-138 record. He has a positive 189-109 record on hard.

Previously in the Hangzhou Challenger

The Japanese has never competed in this tournament before.

Jie Cui

Ranked no. 376, Jie will start his run in the Hangzhou Challenger after he played his last match in Shanghai where he lost 6-4 6-2 to Trungelliti in the qualifications on the 30^th of September.

The Chinese has an overall 38-22 win-loss record in 2024, 33-21 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Jie’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in M15 Nakhon Si Thammarat,M25 Anning and M25 Fuzhou.

In terms of his career, Jie has an overall 151-114 record. He has a positive 133-97 record on hard.

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